A long-lasting event - the Industrial Revolution. King Cotton brought most of my maternal ancestors together, many in Preston, Lancashire. Founding of one of the earliest building societies in the world, in Longridge, Lancashire at end of 19thC. It was formed to build rows of houses for handloom weavers. 2 rows were built, one of which has Listed Building status. Some of my stonemason family moved there at the time. 30 years later the Preston-Longridge railway opened to transport stone to Preston for building the new houses, churches etc. and for paving the new streets. The middle son of my stonemason family, my ancestor, moved to Preston.

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The Potato Famine might get a few answers. Most of my disparate Irish ancestors all came together in Australia

The potato famine of 1879 had an effect on movement on my paternal line. It's sometimes known as "the forgotten famine". Direct ancestors on my paternal side stayed put during the Great Hunger, 3 decades previously.My maternal Irish ancestors (born in Ireland 1830s-1840s) were in England by 1860s. I don't know if it was the Great Famine which caused their move or simply the need to find paid work. Relatives of the husband seem to have been present in Lancashire during 1830s probably as casual/seasonal labourers and hawkers. There were many harvest failures, poverty, shortage of paid employment and lack of poor relief in Ireland pre 1840. Any of these factors could influence travel to Britain or emigration elsewhere.

The Napoleonic War - my 3 x gt grandfather William Trowsdale born 1785 was a farmer in Gilling Yorkshire till he joined up in the 2nd Life Guards in 1804. When injured in Portugal and discharged in 1814, he settled in Marylebone [seemingly to be near to the pension office], became an umbrella maker & married Sarah Sutcliffe in 1805. If he hadn't enlisted he presumably wouldn't have moved away from Yorkshire. The Trowsdales & subsequently the Hayters] remained umbrella makers till the 1920s.

The Luddite Movement - William Holland also born 1785 was a weaver from Midgley nr Halifax, Yorkshire but emigrated to Nova Scotia when the weaving industry was threatened by mechanisation. His granddaughter married an Irish soldier stationed at Halifax Citadel.

It was either the death of the last Tasmanian tiger,September 1936 or events further back like the decline of the lead mine in Shropshire which had been ,after agriculture,the biggest employer in a rural area.To help her family my paternal Grandmother found work in Manchester where she met Grandad,married him and had myDad.

Grandad came from Notts where his mother ,a young widow,had gone with her new husband.Something went very wrong as they separated and she came to Manchesterwhere Grandad met the girl from Shropshire.So,nothing very Earth shattering,but some coincidences.Such slim chances of the things I have mentioned happening.I am so glad,I am what I am because of those people and their marriages.I am not perfect ,far from it but have a broad base so to speak and can adapt and settle due no doubt to being in Manchester ,Shropshire ‘Manchester etc.I feel lucky,Cheerio Viktoria.

I am a "demob baby" and in my primary school class, there were seventy-two of us!!!!!

Was your Dad on his final demob, or was it was a 24 hour demob leave?? I've never actually thought about the kids in my class, or cousins of my own age, but I guess if their Dads had served in the war, and went home on a 24 hr leave as my dad did, well...... Actually I just thought......I have a cousin that is only a few weeks older than me, and he came home on the same leave as Dad! Maybe.... 😜😜😜. LOL - can't wait to tell him!

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